Latinas Benefit From Contraceptive Coverage In Employer Plans
Latinas Benefit From Contraceptive Coverage In Employer Plans
By Jessica Arons and Lucy Panza On February 10 the Obama administration released its final regulation implementing the preventive care provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Heeding the nonpartisan recommendations of […]
Is The Utah Compact The U.S. Immigration Solution?
By Christopher Rangel Utah’s immigration reform, signed into law on March 15 of last year by Governor Gary Herbert, is composed of four separate bills. They range from the creation […]
It’s Time For All Of Us To Move Past SB 1070
By Cristina Tzintzún, Executive Director of Workers Defense Project The recent decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to uphold the constitutional rights of day laborers in Arizona and block the implementation of […]
One Young Latino Hopes To Change Houston For The Better
By Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez Joseph Carlos Madden, 28, is running for a seat in the Texas legislature. Originally from Houston, he already directs the Legislative Study Group and is the […]
CA’s José Hernández’s Congressional Platform: Jobs And Ed
San Diego, California — Migrant farmworker-turned-astronaut José Hernández is running for Congress as a Democrat in the 10th district of California on a very simple platform: “Jobs, jobs, jobs and […]
Latinos Are The First To Reach Pre-Recession Employment
Despite making up only a seventh of the entire U.S. population, Latinos took 60% of the 2.3 million jobs added in 2011. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey, the […]
January Jobs Report: Latino Unemployment Remains High
Despite the U.S. economy’s addition of 243,000 jobs in January, the Latino community is still struggling with an unemployment rate of 10.5%. According to the U.S. Labor Department’s January report, the […]
Hard Work, Not Occupation, Is Key To The American Dream
By Hector Barajas, Director of Strategic Communications at Revolvis Consulting Enough already with this Occupy Wall Street nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, every month I write that check for my […]
Despite High Unemployment, Hiring Discrimination Remains
By David Elliot, otherwords.org Many people know that some 14 million Americans, officially about 9 percent of the nation’s work force, are unemployed. Another 12 million are under-employed. That means […]
Study: Lawn Care Industry Large Source Of Income For Latinos
A new study from the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce simultaneously confirms and dispels myths about the archetypical Latino gardener: according to the findings, the landscaping and lawn care industry […]
